skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Republican-led, bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found, over the course of their 3.5 year investigation, that there was in fact Russian interference.

1. It "found", i.e. asserted, that there had been - but no evidence of interference in the elections, nor even covert influence on public opinion, by the Russian government was presented.

2. Of course Russia had some influence the elections: Through RT America, which has significant viewership. This is actually much more influential than the sophomoric Jesus-vs-Satan or Buff-Bernie Facebook memes which much of the investigation focused on.

> You can find the actual report (all 5 volumes) here [0].

I scoured the Muller report, when it came out, looking for the evidence of ussian interference

> Let's for a moment, assume that the Russians were indeed behind the interference campaign

You're already assuming there had been an interference campaign. But there wasn't one.

Also, the term "The Russians" conflates Russian people with the Russian government. This use of plural nouns is nearly always underhanded: "The Americans", "The Jews", "The blacks" - they all must have done something nefarious, they're up to no good, they're a danger to "us" etc.

> it was about weakening your enemy's unity... tried and true methods... enemies of the US... Russian long-term psyops

Ah, back to the cold war.

This kind of rhetoric also emphasizes how the Russia interference conspiracy theory is at the end of the day an internal political tool, to discredit criticism of the political establishment as it veers farther away from public sentiment.
I see it occasionally on both platforms, but not very much. Usually it gets caught very quickly.
What is transfer learning if not partially updating the model...?
Brave soul posting this kind of truth to HN comments. But you are right, there is corruption, arrogance and ego in the science fields just the same as any things else.
There's nothing to stop the Biden administration from buying this and putting it in the public domain. That would be poetic justice.
I was going for a "Chinese wisdom" thing, but it was hard to evoke "Sun Tzu" with "Sun Inc".

I really hope that's what the other posters got, or I'll be embarrassed :P
Ask HN: Logged Out of HN?
I was just logged out of HN for some reason. Happen to anybody else?
Supply & Demand: GME stock valuable with 139%+ short interest, 3 days to cover
The weekly and monthly options expire Friday, and people who hold them will need to buy at whatever price the stock has, right?

This is a gamma squeeze. So the price should rise even further on Friday.

Who is going to get hosed? Short sellers or owners?
Not a single person who believed in the efficient market hypothesis ever made a lot of money.
We all know exactly what kind of research is going down in Workspace 4...
tl;dr Your browser is getting slower because some repulsive companies just can't keep it to themselves. The level of sophistication is far from trivial, linked from the article:

https://webkit.org/blog/8146/protecting-against-hsts-abuse/

"An attacker seeking to track site visitors can take advantage of the user’s HSTS cache to store one bit of information on that user’s device. For example, “load this domain with HTTPS” could represent a 1, while no entry in the HSTS cache would represent a 0. By registering some large number of domains (e.g., 32 or more), and forcing resource loads from a controlled subset of those domains, they can create a large enough vector of bits to uniquely represent each site visitor."
Afaik the ballots are complicated because you also have tons of stuff like sheriffs, judges.. on it. And sometimes a confusing ballot is better for one party to suppress the vote of certain populations.

"Your response to this is basically “they’re too dumb to to understand and so don’t matter anyway.”"
No, my response is that a pure paper ballot system wont change a thing and would just shift the conspiracy theories to other parts of the system.
If only there were some way one could search for specific things on the Web.
I've never been there before. I went on to read the details of their "PUR subscription" via Google Translate, and it seems to truly be a "pay OR give up data" model, the first one I've ever seen. That said, it still isn't advertising-free[0] and contains some amount of internal, first-party tracking[1] (but see [2]).

Below are excerpts run via Google Translate. I'm truly very surprised by what I just saw - the directness and honesty of communications is even more refreshing than privacy-friendliness itself. Their FAQ covers privacy and advertising concerns separately, and is very specific. If I had a need for German-language news, I'd subscribe to this just as a token of appreciation.

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[0] - "We continue to advertise our own products discreetly because SPIEGEL readers expect information about new products from the company. We cannot technically remove advertising from podcasts and our digital edition, but this is played without tracking. Individual sponsorships are just as difficult to fade out, and separate page areas such as voucher and sports betting marketplaces that are independently offered by the providers there are only to be made inaccessible in the navigation of our journalistic offers - but not, for example, for searches from outside. This is the level at which the exceptions move."

[1] - "We depend on it [internal usage measurements] for both basic control and further development of the news site, especially in order to optimize our payment model: Which texts are of interest to readers, where do operating elements not work, which pay offer might interest a reader and which rather not?"

[2] - "What data does DER SPIEGEL collect from PUR subscribers? The customary reach comparisons and usage statistics for the control and optimization of the site, especially via our first-party service provider Adobe." - I'm not sure what they mean by Adobe being a "first-party service provider", but I don't like it collecting anything.

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EDIT: here [3] is a list of cookies they set for PUR subscribers. Seems to be true to their word (and it's nice this list wasn't hard to find in the first place), but I'm worried about the presence of Outbrain on that list. I can't imagine any legitimate interest a third-party chumbox provider would have.

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[3] - https://odbdegi64ni2b3m74jattyok7i--www-spiegel-de.translate...
Retweets still convey a tweet to your followers much more directly than a "like" does.
Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
> it seems incredibly naive in hindsight

Oh stop with the dramatics, please. JS has brought us an immense amount of innovation on the web. It has lowered the barrier of entry to programming and introduced tens of millions of people to the world of development.

If you're on HN the odds are that directly or indirectly, JS is one of the reasons you have a job today, and that you can execute it remotely. And today specifically, it's the only reason many kids can do remote learning as efficiently as they can.

Dude/dudette, I'm not a big fan of JS but let's recognize the good it has brought on the world, instead of complaining in the likes of what amounts to "if only we still lived in caves, we wouldn't have those pesky problems with online advertising" or something.
Maybe your services relied on the "supercookies" thus being immune to 3rd party cookies disabled :) ?

An example that I can imagine is a big onlite shopping company that has several domains, and they want a shopping cart that that works across all their domains.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25921616
You can find them in unreasonable condition in the middle of woods, etc... and those can be brought back as well.
If you were on starter anyway, why would you this affect you? Just keeping using free?
> if you are running your own XMPP server, this shouldn't be a lot less "secure" than anything else on your XMPP server.

It will terminate the encryption on a device you (for most values of you) don't physically control. Thus it's less secure than end-to-end encryption.
Lines of code is a poor approximation for complexity. Rust programs are shorter, but they are not less complex. The AST is similar and the graph of relationships between different parts of the code is much more complex than in C. Overall I'd say it balances at best, if not that Rust is more complex.
I browse in firefox with javascript turned off, in ublock, with a bunch of other restrictions [0], and temporary containers. I make exceptions for a couple dozen sites, like my bank, open street maps, etc. Youtube is my only soft spot here, the rest of google I keep blocked. I can make one-off exceptions to read a tab in front of me, but that's not routine, it's not hard to find sites that support this.

[0] https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
I get the feeling that a shift is occurring toward extra profit-taking among CPU and GPU vendors at the moment; it's not surprising given the absurd markups that opportunistic resellers are charging in secondary markets (ebay etc..)
“Disposable” Air-Pulse Sex Toys– Review and Hacking
They can, but those tools are much more heavyweight than something like nq
What I know is basically just what I read in this article: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/the-ga...

However, it looks very clear that GameStop is allowed to hold on to a bunch of shares it can sell directly in the stock market, since it did exactly that:

> Happily, GameStop does have an ATM offering going. It put it in place on Dec. 8, 2020, when the stock was at about $16.35. The way these things work is that GameStop disclosed that its bank could sell stock—up to $100 million worth—“from time to time” at GameStop’s request “consistent with its normal trading and sales practices”; it did not disclose any particular schedule, and has not yet reported if any shares have been sold, or how many, or when. So I don’t know if GameStop had sold the whole $100 million before Friday’s wild run, or if it had any stock left over to sell; if it had any left over, I don’t know if it sold it all on Friday. I hope it did!
Imho, a lot of the “physics” lies in getting some intuition for the consequences/implications of some mathematical model (or, conversely use the same idea to propose new models). It’s one thing to succinctly write Maxwell’s equations in some chosen notation, but it’s another thing to understand why E & B fields in a light wave are separated by a pi/2 phase. Or why monopoles could exist and what their profile might look like (and the implications for charge quantization).

While it’s technically true that it’s “just using math & computing consequences”, it’s an endeavor of enormous (essential) complexity, warranting focus and effort. Likewise that engineering is “just applied physics”, product design is “just applied engineering”, etc.
Would you mind revealing that page? I am on the opposite end of the political spectrum but I hold great value in people who are honest about what they are and I’m always reevaluating my positions.

I’m not trying to put you on the spot. Feel free to ignore this message.
> nq -- add a command to a queue that executes each command in the background strictly in the order they were added.
The permission model that GitLab has is one of the disappointing things about it and part of the reason we went with a different product for issue management (and I frequently grump about it). I'd really like to be able to define my own roles and assign different actions that that role can do.

I feel that it wasn't made to host enterprise products but rather FOSS in competition with GitHub and then made a pivot to enterprise products but not quite moving away from the "this is for FOSS on the web".

Things like "can modify own comments" not being something that can be modified (people updating their own comments and then not being able to go back over it for an audit or information request of some sort) or having a manager role that can administer the members of a project but not the code.

And yea... having to pay $100/month for a product/project manager in a larger org is a rather firm "nope." Have a dozen of those and that's a lot to pay for not much functionality.

A previous company that I worked at... there was a project manager. Just one. It was a small company - I sat across from the other Java developer. In there, were you've got a small organization where $100/month for a PM is a lot to swallow, but its only $100/month for one PM (and then you get all the other features that saves you from having to hire another operations person) - that's not as hard a price to swallow.

There the thing would be "ok, we've got 10 people at $20/month and all this other stuff that we need to set up on our own, so $200/month vs 11 people at $100/month and a bunch that we don't need to set up on our own $1100" -- the "is it worth $900 for the rest of the infrastructure done for us - along with dumping trello for gitlab issues" and the answer would probably be "yes."
So the author argues that trans people's receptors are inhibited and estrogen helps unihibit them. Why is then transition from female to male allowed, this would inhibit the estrogen and worsen the situation.

Putting kids on hormones is wrong.

I am thinking about the next nareative, and I am pretty sure it's going to be pedophilia.
If people reacted to censorship in a principled way, nobody would use Facebook. It's an inherently censorious platform. The whole argument is about regulating or influencing Facebook's patterns of censorship.
Likely, they put identifier with steganography

When image loaded, js read the identifier, if the image loaded from cache, the identifer still same

Edit: typo
i think usually snake oil is something you pay money for. in this case, im just expressing my opinion which is that there is a very significant medical breakthrough in the pipes and that it is best summarized as a "metabolic revolution." this is because it has to do with metabolic dysfunction and the pathologies that are caused by it. the connection between inflammation and metabolism is a very exciting area of research. PERK and eif2a are a good example.
What about OTR?
Seems neutral to me. If there wasn't any impairment it wouldn't be a subject for medical psychiatry.
How about FATNAG…oh wait, that's still not not great.
DRY is great guideline. KISS is another one. I find that it is not uncommon for the two of them to butt heads a little, and it can be tricky to find the correct balance. In general, I am finding that I favour repetition over abstraction more and more.
I'll check out those MOOCs, thanks!
There's a movement to reframe things like autism as neurodiversity rather than strictly a disorder. I suppose the emphasis in that case would instead be on things people can do well, not what they do wrong by everyone else's standard.
I wouldn't exactly call POSIX file i/o semantics wrong: POSIX came after the systems that it was trying to document, so it wasn't in a position to propose new semantics. That has always been the problem with advanced filesystem APIs. Without new advanced APIs being available on all major platforms, developers fall back to the lowest common denominator across the platforms they are trying to support. And it's difficult to try to change these semantics once systems are in place.

It is also important to note that complex semantics make building high performance systems much more difficult. Nobody in their right mind would use POSIX locks in a high performance application. More complex APIs often have implicit locking requirements which defeat the efforts made to improve scalability on multi-core systems over the past decades of system development.

Systems development is all about trade-offs, and complexity constraints choices in often unexpected ways.
Damn that's a precious tool. Thank you for showing it to me!
OTR is safer than this gateway. It is end-to-end encrypted (i.e. client-to-client). With OTR, the server does not have access to messages in plaintext.
That's an entirely different question to whether it should be on by default for random sites, which is what GP is actually talking about. I would go farther and say that there was never a time that it looked reasonable.
How would that help? You still have to pay the license fee...
GNU Make is widely used, and actively maintained. New features are added regularly. It's the build tool targeted by Kconfig (used in the Linux kernel and elsewhere), and also it's probably true to call it CMake's most common backend.

So, don't worry - GNU Make isn't going anywhere, regardless of what eventually happens to Autoconf.
I’ve been HIV+ since I was 18 (mid-20’s now). I’ve taken the Gilead combo pills since a few months after I was diagnosed, first Stribild and now Genvoya, the difference being a new form of tenofovir.

I miss probably one dose a month, maybe two. I don’t take my pill at the same time everyday, probably in a 4 or 5 hour window vs. the 2 hour window my doctor recommends. I’ve never had any side effects and I’ve been undetectable since I began treatment.

I’m not sure I’m interested in this injectable regimen. My HIV treatment will last for the majority of my life; I don’t feel like I can risk any amount of reduced long term efficacy with a new drug. I also don’t love needles. I’m excited to talk to my doctor about it, though.

Like birth control, the more options there are, the better. HIV treatment is truly a marvel of modern medicine.
Bad actors don't need to game the system, they either:

* Get their government cronies/buddies to skew the system in their favor.

* Use their business relationship with Facebook to skew the system in their favor.

* Own the system from the get-go.
Gitlab didn't make all starter features part of the free tier. Now we're forced to pay for premium without gaining any features relevant for our team.

Edit: FYI starter was previously a paid tier.
You shouldn't use ASan in release builds since it may have exploitable vulnerabilities.
I'm in the same boat, our organisation has about 500 potential users. However only a small number need the paid features.

If there was a way to assign licenses to groups or individual users in the self-hosted version we would be paying for it already.

Same as you I really want Gitlab to do well, but the lack of options with licensing makes it difficult to adopt. A lot of other enterprise software allows for per-user license assignment like Office 365, Salesforce, Jira, etc...
Corollary: there many great abstractions, but few abstractions are great.
IIRC browsers (chrome and/or safari?) haven’t cached assets like that cross origin for years.
How does Backblaze source its hard drives? I think their reports are getting big enough to warrant the attention of the manufacturers marketing departments, who are incentivized to game the system by supplying non-representative disks (i.e. the "good ones") to get an edge over the competition, if they can. I suspect any model that looks good in the report will likely shift more numbers than it otherwise would have.
Not bad considering Youtube takes in something like $15B per year.
Anything as big as the Moon is going to be spherical; if Mars' moons were large enough to totally eclipse the Sun, I expect they would be spherical too.
Right, would OTR work with the gateway?
that's not true these days, rustls is a great TLS lib that has been through at least one serious external security audit.

https://cure53.de/pentest-report_rustls.pdf
Oh they often can, trust me. The tech is all there. It's just a matter of joining the dots at this point.
Replying to my own comment: I see that GitLab are actually offering a pretty generous transition deal for existing Bronze customers with less than 25 customers ($6/$9/$15 in yr 1/2/3).

Honestly that is enough to retain me. I hope they open it up more widely as an intro offer.
I think I've been converted to the idea that it isn't manipulation, because you can't prove that the inflated price is the wrong price and thus artificial.

If the price goes way up, they can sell stock at that price and keep the business running.

GME being a worthless company right now is not an objective fact about the world, but a contingent one, significantly dependent on their access to capital to get through covid and restructure.

P.S. Matt Levine's column today gave a "traditional four part test" for manipulation:

(1) That the accused had the ability to influence market prices; (2) that the accused specifically intended to create or effect a price or price trend that does not reflect legitimate forces of supply and demand; (3) that artificial prices existed; and (4) that the accused caused the artificial prices.

No individual on WSB can possibly be doing all four things, can they? Unless there is some private conspiracy among a small number of people.
They already do get a little blue: just like how at sunset and sunrise you see red near the sun on Earth, on Mars sunset and sunrise come with a bit of blue at the horizon.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/925/what-does-a-sunrise-su...
Möbius Sync: third-party iOS app for Syncthing
I find DRY to be useful in some cases even when there's only a second copy of the code. I hate seeing any duplicate code past a certain level of complexity. Other times I'll copy a few lines of code all over the place and not worry about it.

The core conclusion I've come to is to take ALL such "rules" with a grain of salt. Programming is a skilled craft, and there are no rules that you can apply universally.
What exactly is the opposite side of an anti-fascist facebook page?
They're not circumventing the system, they're circumventing the false positives of the gun-detection algorithm. As the parent pointed out, advertising these gun-related things is explicitly allowed by Facebook.
I'll check out Network Algorthmics, thank you for the recommendation.

>> But, ultimately, the best asset for somebody with a CS background is not so much having immediate knowledge, but knowing where to acquire knowledge as necessary. If you have a general idea that for a specific scenario, you can acquire X knowledge in Y resource as you go along

These days my goto resources are SO, Slack, Github issues, etc. Any recommendations beyond that? Or by 'where to acquire knowledge' do you mean 'how to categorize problems'?
Similarly, abalone shell patterns were considered for ceramic armor plates.
https://ceramics.org/ceramic-tech-today/ceramic-video/video-...
Posix doesn't guarantee or require that you can reliably close a file descriptor. Modus tollens and all, or as the saying goes, 98% confidence has been refuted at general relativity.
So a sine wave convolved with a sawtooth? But the sine’s frequency is what would matter, as it’s the string’s resonant frequency. (This is why pizzacato works) The sawtooth is just for flavor.
See: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
Firefox’s default anti-fingerprinting is just a blacklist of common fingerprinting scripts.

It is incredibly difficult to make a browser fingerprint non-unique. Only the Tor browser has strict enough settings with a large enough user base to overcome fingerprinting.

If you don’t want to use Tor, try these:

- uBlock Origin (which has a larger blacklist of fingerprinting scripts)

- Enable the privacy.resistFingerprinting setting in about:config to make your browser more similar to other users with that setting enabled (but not entirely non-unique)

- The nuclear option: arkenfox user.js [1]. It’s github repo also contains a lot of further information about fingerprinting.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js